1. Introduction: reinventing the welfare state

   • A. Lans Bovenberg
   • Bas Jacobs
   • Ruud A. de Mooij

   OriginalPaper Open access 04 December 2007 Pages: 1 - 4

2. The economics of the welfare state in today’s world

   • A. B. Atkinson

   OriginalPaper 24 October 2007 Pages: 5 - 17

3. Childhood investments and skill formation

   • Gosta Esping-Andersen

   OriginalPaper 02 June 2007 Pages: 19 - 44

4. The Scandinavian model—prospects and challenges

   • Torben M. Andersen

   OriginalPaper 05 May 2007 Pages: 45 - 66

5. Individual savings accounts for social insurance: rationale and alternative designs

   • A. Lans Bovenberg
   • Martin Ino Hansen
   • Peter Birch Sørensen

   OriginalPaper Open access 08 August 2007 Pages: 67 - 86

6. Reinventing the Dutch tax-benefit system: exploring the frontier of the equity-efficiency trade-off

   • Ruud A. de Mooij

   OriginalPaper Open access 13 September 2007 Pages: 87 - 103